Christmas Evans, the Preacher of Wild Wales: His country, his times, and his contemporariesHood, Edwin Paxton
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Christmas Evans, the Preacher of Wild Wales: His country, his times, and his contemporaries
Hood, Edwin Paxton
Evans, Christmas, 1766-1838
Sermons, studied and unstudied, 12; Bardic character of Welsh, 12, 13;
Value of great, 104; Composition of, 144; Delivery of, 145, 150; Where
Welsh preachers composed their, 171; Thoughts on being requested to
publish a volume of, 284; _Silex scintillaus_, 312; Massive, 314; Living
in the presence of published, 324; Born in solitude, 225, 226;
Characteristics of Christmas Evans’s, 328; Illustrative, 358, 368, 378,
386, 396, 407.
Services, uncertainty of Welsh, 22.
Sheep-stealers and the collection, 113.
Shenkin of Penhydd, 236; His plainness of speech, 237.
“Silver Trumpet of Wales,” the, 170.
Sin, sacrifice for accomplished, 379.
Sin-eater, superstition of the, 23.
Sinai, the ten cannon of, 193.
Singing, Welsh, 20.
“Sleeping Bard,” the, 329.
Smith, Dr. Pye, “Scripture Testimony to the Messiah,” 282.
Snails, the two, 308.
Son equal to the Father, the, 387; Glorifies the Father, 389.
Song, a prophet of, 212.
Soul and body, 187.
Spider, a Welsh poem on the, 16.
Spirit, a healthy, 161.
St. David, a tradition of, 8.
St. David’s cathedral, 33.
St. Govan, chapel of, 34.
Stephen’s, Rhys, Life of Christmas Evans referred to, 43, 107, 164, 250,
266, 269.
“Stop, Gabriel!” 188.
“Stop! Silence!” 189.
Stranger knocking at the farmer’s door, the, 407.
Streams, Welsh, 18.
Subject, singular mode of illustrating a, 236.
Success, value of, 55.
Sunday schools established in Wales, 228.
Superstitions, Welsh, character of, 26; Corpse candles, 27; Little men in
green, 24; Mysterious horseman, 28; Sin-eater, 23.
Swansea, David Davies of, 40, 46, 202; One hundred years since, 208;
Christmas Evans at, 300.
Swearer, the, 210.
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TAYLOR, JEREMY, in Wales, 35.
Temptation, 143.
Thinking and living, 21.
Things that are shaking, 363.
Thomas, Timothy, 48; Anecdotes of, 49, 50, 51, 52.
Time, 340.
Timepiece, the, 342,
Tintagel, the Welsh, 34.
Tour, Christmas Evans’s first preaching, 56.
Translations, inadequacy of, 314.
Travelling in Wales, 119, 120, 262.
Trefach, ministry of Davies at, 206.
Trevecca, Howell Harris of, 221.
Triads, the Welsh, 178; Bardic, 254.
Troubles, a wife’s, 115.
Truths, seeing great, 316; Power of great, 317.
Twm Shon Catty’s country, 18.
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UNCLE, a cruel, 41–42.
Usefulness the aim and end of preaching, 12.
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VAUGHAN, Henry, referred to, 311.
Velinvoel, Christmas Evans at, 51–59.
Vicarage, an old Welsh, 219.
Victory and triumph, the scene of, 361.
“Vocation of the Preacher” referred to, 245.
Voice, the human, 213.
Vortigern, supposed resting-place of, 54.
_Vox Humana_ stop, the, 213.
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“WAESOME CARL” quoted, the, 72.
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